The Eurovision Song Contest 2010

The Eurovision Song Contest 2010
(from Oslo, Norway).

• Commentary on the first Semi-Final (25th May 2008)
  It is nearly 6am having been up in the night. This is a RAW edit. It will be marked up soon (but prob. not until all of the reviews have been written).
   
  
• Commentary on the second Semi-Final (27th May 2008)
  It is nearly 6am... again. This is a RAW edit.

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I have not forgotten. I have been prodded to write my review. I have the 3.5Gb video file. I'll get onto it soon... Honestly! I'll try to have it up for Christmas. ☺

Until my review goes up, if you can stand the muck the is WordPress (and its tendency to serve up ENORMOUS pages with everything all run together), then you can take a look at http://eurovisionobsession.wordpress.com/ which has been put together, quite nicely, by none other than American-Andy who you might have heard from once or twice on these very pages and you will soon be hearing... literally. Huh? What? Hey - that would be telling! Just wait and see. ☺

The Junion Eurovision Song Contest 2010

• Sorry. No. RIKSat is no longer carrying the contest (Cyprus withdrew). The western countries are either hard to reach satellites (Sweden) or crypted channels (Belgium, Netherlands). The rest? Eastern Europe, someplace...
  Given that there are transmissions in New Zealand and, I think, Australia... it might be an idea for the EBU for NEXT year to pick up an empty transponder on the Astra cluster at 19.2E in order to offer the contest to western Europeans who would otherwise have all but forgotten the contest. Despite our respective countries pulling out, there are those of use here who would like to watch the contest, and something a tad more reliable than that which a streaming plug-in delivers...
  
  
   
  Best song: Sweden, kudos also to Serbia.
  Best performance: Russia, kudos also to Russia.
  WTF award to: FYRMac - what's with all the screaming?
   
  And here is Ksenia (midget-waif-girl with the keyboard on a spring) looking quite a bit bigger and promoting Unicef:
  
  
   
  Svante gave everybody 12 points to start with, and in return...
  
  
   
  The result? Armenia pulled ahead, then Russia flattened it. It looked like a game over when the final result pushed Armenia ahead by ONE point.
  So that's JESC 2010. You'll find videos and such on YouTube and the official site.
  As one Tweet (scrolling down the side of the page) put it: さぁ、終わったな。来年のユーロビジョンで会おうぜ！